2025 Practice Schedule (Subject to Change):
T1 =Tier 1 | T2 = Tier 2 | T3 = Tier 3 | T4 = Tier 4 (See guidelines on the Weekly Workout page for your workout plan)
OYO = On Your Own (this is a day that we do not have a team practice scheduled but there is a workout listed on the Weekly Workout page for you to complete)
August 4 – August 10:
Monday (8/4): All - OYO
Tuesday (8/5): All - OYO
Wednesday (8/6) All - Greenbelt Park (6:00p - 8:15p | Meet in Sweetgum Picnic Area parking lot)
Thursday (8/7): All - OYO
Friday (8/8): All - Greenbelt Park (6:00p - 8:15p | Meet in Sweetgum Picnic Area parking lot)
Saturday (8/9): All - OYO
Sunday (8/10): All - OFF
August 11 – August 17:
Monday (8/11): All - OYO
Tuesday (8/12): All - DeMatha (3:30 - 6:15 | Meetup location TBD) [Tentative: Mandatory* Parent/Athlete Meeting after practice @ 6:30pm - Room TBD]
Wednesday (8/13) All - DeMatha (3:30 - 6:15 | Meetup location TBD) [Coaches meeting after practice @ 6:30pm]
Thursday (8/14): All - Greenbelt Lake (3:30p - 6:00p | Meet at picnic tables near Lake Park Dr parking lot)
Friday (8/15): All - Greenbelt Lake (3:30p - 5:45p | Meet at picnic tables near Lake Park Dr parking lot)
Saturday (8/16): All - Greenbelt Park (8:30a - 11:00a | Meet in Sweetgum Picnic Area parking lot)
Sunday (8/17): All - OFF
*Please note that it is mandatory for all parents and athletes to receive the information provided at this meeting. If you are unable to attend, you must review the information Coach Puffett sends out after the meeting. For athletes to continue on the team beyond August 28, all parents will be required to electonically sign a form stating they attended the meeting or received and reviewed all information sent by Coach Puffett following the meeting. Athletes without a signed parent form will be removed from the roster at 11:59pm on August 28 and will not be permitted to rejoin the team for the 2025 season.
Once school is in session, practice/departure from campus is at approx. 3:10p (subject to change)
Pick-up from off-campus practice is at end time at off-campus location or approx. 20 minutes later at DeMatha
Greenbelt Park pickup (and dropoff for Summer workouts) is at Sweetgum Picnic Area Parking Lot
Greenbelt Lake pickup (and dropoff for Summer workouts) is at Lake Park Dr. Parking Lot
For early dismissals, practice time and location will be posted under Important Notifications
*We may or may not attend the 2025 Maryland Private School State Championship. The decision will be made based on a few factors, including how we like the course when we race it at the Bittersweet Invitational. If we do attend, athletes who participate in winter sports are dismissed from the team after the WCAC Championship to rest and begin preparations for those sports, with the exception of distance runners going out for indoor track; all other cross country athletes would continue on to the Private School Championship unless they can demonstrate they have a school or family conflict.
**These postseason meets sponsored by Champs Sports and Nike are not school-sanctioned events. Athletes must register themselves for the Footlocker Northeast Regional or the Nike Cross Southeast Regional if they wish to participate and must then qualify to compete at their respective National Championship. Athletes qualify for the Footlocker National Championship by placing in the Top 10 in the Championship division of the Northeast Regional while Nike does not appear to have much guidance regarding how to qualify from the regional meet to the national meet as an individual.